photograph album / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI

Photograph album with images taken at the Royal Herbert Hospital in Woolich, Samaritan Hospital, and the British Military General Hospital No. 8 Rouen, which operated from 1914 to 1919, also known as the Sick Sisters Hospital. Compiled by one of the Burrowes Sisters, who nursed there during the period. With many images including Eleanor Mary Burrowes and the donor's mother Rosamond Charlotte Cosby Burrowes, scenes of interiors and exteriors of hospital buildings, patients, staff, funerals and the cemetary, a list of the dead in Ward 03 in 1918, scenes of a play, and postcard images of Rouen. photographs with handwritten captions. Rosamund was stationed at Adelaide Hospital for about 6 weeks, then the military hospital at the Royal Herbert in Woolich through the Voluntary Aid Detachment, after which she was sent to France, mostly serving at General Hospital No. 8 Roeun, a field hospital for desperate cases, and was there unitl 1919, with a break in the middle of the period. She did not receive the 1915 Star medal. One of two photographic albums, depicting Irish Woman in WWI nursing service. Part of a collection relating to the Burrowes Sisters of Co. Cavan, Anna and Rosamund, nurses in the service during the period, serving in Northern France at the British Military General Hospital No. 8 Roeun, which operated from 1914 to 1919, also known as the Sick Sisters Hospital.;